Stray Kids' huge popularity in Japan

They've really blown up with CASE143. I'm happy there are people other than me that appreciate that song like it deserves

Since they've started their dome tour now (with 8 Japan dates in Tokyo Dome, Kyocera Dome Osaka, Fukuoka PayPay Dome, Vantelin Dome Nagoya), I got to thinking about how their popularity there really skyrocketed since last year especially. They've had a nice following for a while, but now they're really up there. So I thought I'd make a thread with some of their stats to acknowledge it.

At this point, is Japan their biggest/main market? It's at least 2nd biggest. They've really built on their momentum so far which is good.

First: Since I already mentioned the dome tour, 2,5M is crazy:

CASE143 on Line-music mid-year chart:

Billboard mid-year:

* They're the 3rd highest kpop artist on Top Artist after NewJeans and Seventeen.

Certification:

+ The Sound album double platinum certification for 500,000 by RIAJ

Billboard Japan Artist chart:

Billboard Japan HOT100:

* S-Class has now spent 11weeks (at #86, up 5 spots), and now ties with"Super" as the longest charting 2023 song by a BG

* S-Class peaked in the top 10 at #8.

Billboard album:

Billboard download chart:

Oricon:

* TOP also on Billboard Japan Hot Singles chart holds record as the longest-charting project by a Korean act.

Spotify:

YT:

Also just very random, but since I liked Alice in Borderland, it was fun to see one of the actresses be a big fan!

Lastly, I want to mention their 1st Japanese EP releasing soon featuring LiSA (very popular and has made many anime intros, like Demon Slayer!). It'd be sick if she performed with them at one of the concerts

Maniac (I guess with help from Thunderous too) made their popularity in China blow up, CASE143 in Japan... SK when??? lol

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They are the active boygroup with the best digitals in Japan, on top of that are physical monsters and a mega touring force there. It's definitely their biggest market.

To be honest, I'm mostly positive when It comes to Stray Kids and usually I don't doubt their potential, but I didn't expect Japan to be their biggest market. And I'm glad It is, cause It's a very solid and loyal audience they will need to keep making money when they aren't on top anymore.

I'm very happy for them as well. Japan is the 2nd biggest music market in the world after all, so if they have a solid fandom there, like you said - then they're set for a long time.

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Did you like 'Social Path', Elliah? (If you watched the live performance)

I DID!!! Pains be to wait so long for it to release lol. And I really like LiSA's vocals on it.

Did you?

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I absolutely loved it. I've been watching the live performance over and over again waiting for it to drop on streaming plataforms, cause Lisa's vocals on chorus and Felix's part on the bridge can't get out of my head. It's really catchy.

I'm usually not excited for japanese releases, but this time I can't explain, It will just be THAT song.

Lol SAME, I keep listening to it on Twitter! It repeats in my head so I always wanna listen again. It seems like it'll easily end up as my favorite Japanese SKZ song. By far the most excited I've been too for a Jap. release!

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The way this MV teaser is coming for 1,8M views in 2 days. A japanese comeback

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Ruined the competition

The 24 hours views+likes aren't even THAT far off from Korean releases even

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It's still mindblowing to think THEEE LiSA is singing a song my 3RACHA wrote. And It's also a great song

Yeah, and they sound so great together. Perfect collab!

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This is what surprised me, It's giving korean releases' hype

S-Class teaser 1 has 2,2M views now. Social Path teaser 1 is not far from it

Wow yeah. Right, this much hype is almost unexpected. I just checked CASE 143's 1st teaser, and Social Path has more views and likes already lol.